GPT-4o Mini Transcribe on OpenAI API

Name: GPT-4o Mini Transcribe on OpenAI API
Brand: OpenAI

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Why use GPT-4o Mini Transcribe on OpenAI API?

OpenAI API offers GPT-4o Mini Transcribe with pay-as-you-go pricing at $5.00/1M output tokens. OpenAI is a leading AI research and deployment company dedicated to developing safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) for humanity.

Input / 1M

Output / 1M

$5.00

Cache

Not sourced

Batch

Not sourced

Setup recipe

Python + curl

Install

pip install openai

Auth

export OPENAI_API_KEY=...

Call

import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()  # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(

Model ID

gpt-4o-mini-transcribe

Request example

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()  # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o-mini-transcribe",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Gotchas

Use the model slug directly, e.g. "gpt-4o" or "gpt-4.1-mini".
The examples expect OPENAI_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.

Pricing

Type	Price (per 1M)
Output tokens	$5.00
Audio input	$1.25

Capabilities

MultimodalBatch APIAudio

About GPT-4o Mini Transcribe

GPT-4o Mini Transcribe is OpenAI's cost-efficient speech-to-text model based on GPT-4o mini, released March 20, 2025. Offers substantially better accuracy than Whisper at roughly half the price of gpt-4o-transcribe. Supports batch, Realtime transcription, and Assistants endpoints. Input: $1.25/1M audio tokens. Output: $5.00/1M text tokens. Practical: ~$0.003/min. API ID: gpt-4o-mini-transcribe.